they'd devastate priorities like education and energy and medical research. they would certainly slow our recovery and cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs. that's why democrats, republicans, business leaders, and economists have already said that these cuts known here in washington as the sequester are a really bad idea. >> but unless congress acts in the next two weeks, what the president called a really bad idea is about to become reality. joining me now is anthony wallness, the legislative director for the association of the united states navy. anthony, i'm going to ask you right off the bat. you've been meeting on capitol hill. what do you think is going to happen with the sequester? >> it's a bad thing as the president noted. it's something that we are facing that's going to be a difficult fix in the future. we never really saw this as getting to this point but sequestration really is asking a business to really look at its budget and prepare itself not knowing where it's going, asking a multibillion dollar department of defense to plan without a budge